> It would also help quite a bit if we had better encapsulation > technology. Binary plug-ins for browsers are generally a bad > idea -- having things like video players in separate processes > where operating system facilities can be used to cage them more > effectively would also help to mitigate damage.
I think this is one of those circumstances where if you can get the criminal to go to the house next door you've won and that is all the winning you can do. That everyone else uses Famous Vendor Software Latest Version and you don't is your win. Now it would be entirely ironic if the complexity of something (think ASN.1) caused a single working open source version (think ASN.1 compiler) to eclipse all other versions just because the complexity has made it too hard to go forward. As Mike O'Dell used to say, left to themselves, competent engineers will deliver the most complex code they can debug. This may apply to the world at large. --dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
